[HN Gopher] One million people saw my dumbest tweet
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One million people saw my dumbest tweet
Author : chr15m
Score : 40 points
Date : 2021-05-10 22:07 UTC (53 minutes ago)
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| 5- wrote:
| original tweet (2015):
| https://twitter.com/neilknet/status/634448062040162304
|
| (absolutely irrelevant to the discussion, but someone had to do
| this)
| chris_wot wrote:
| I think I managed to get to the point if not caring when I stated
| to right about Australian women on Wikipedia. Once I wrote an
| article about Ellen Atkinson, I realised the content was key, not
| the games.
|
| I already knew that, of course. I now write under another
| account. Hopefully I remain anonymous. If I get famous or
| respected under this account, I'll create a new one where I'm not
| recognised.
| codeulike wrote:
| Can someone explain it? How does it relate to the Mandalorian?
| sodality2 wrote:
| The tweet caption-
| https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a29888972/the-manda...
| mcphage wrote:
| "This is the way" was his text for the tweet. It's a repeated
| line on The Mandalorian.
| mattgreenrocks wrote:
| "This is the way" is a mantra of the Mandalorians.
| motohagiography wrote:
| Super useful observation that the metrics are the addiction.
|
| > Metrics are an addictive drug. Twitter is literally an
| incremental game.
|
| This comes up in the Nir Eyal "Hooked" model, but Eyal spends
| chapters outlining it, where the author here captures it as the
| main thing. Watch the number go up, get little hits of dopamine.
| It's gambling, trading/investing, SEO, literally anything with an
| 1/f distribution. (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/1/f_noise)
|
| I'd wonder if you could drive engagement on an app by spacing out
| the arrival of user alerts and feedback so they only reached the
| user with a delay/period that was hidden, but detectable in the
| same sense of anticipation music creates. Seems like an unethical
| experiment, and probably hidden in the annals of FAANG companies.
| sharkjacobs wrote:
| Take the social dynamics and mechanisms which have caused class
| clowns to seek attention from groups since time immemorial, and
| gamify it with a feedback mechanism which will dole out little
| hits of dopamine periodically for the rest of the day/week
| whenever you check the device and the number has gone up
|
| There's nothing profound about addiction but it's no less real
| and momentous in the life of afflicted for that
| ALittleLight wrote:
| I used to have a small YouTube channel. Still do, I guess, but
| don't update it.
|
| One of my videos was very different than all my others and it
| did, for me, very well. This video earned something like 700k
| views compared to my average of high hundreds to low thousands.
|
| Like this author, my video was something different than I usually
| did. Unlike this author my thought was "I've got to start making
| more content like that new thing!"
|
| However, my approach kind of killed my channel. The reason my
| video did well turned out to be because a minor YouTuber
| (significantly more major than me) linked to it and almost all of
| the views came from him. He never linked to my other videos so
| when I made similar content it didn't very well.
|
| When I went back to making my old content that did worse than
| before too. My mental model was that I had alienated my original
| audience with the shift to the new kind of videos and then
| alienated my new audience with the return to the old kind of
| videos.
|
| In the end, I felt that the random spike in views, and my poor
| handling of it, ruined my channel and reversed the modest
| momentum I had built over years. I used to have small but growing
| numbers of views and subscribers. After this incident I had
| declining numbers of both.
| rubatuga wrote:
| TLDR: Don't let artificial metrics rule your life.
|
| Chasing Hacker News points is one of them.
| undeadcomment wrote:
| Imagine caring about HN points instead of the dang metagame.
| bt1a wrote:
| I, too, might be upset enough to ragequit Twitter if my most
| popular post was that & I believed my other posts were profound.
| causality0 wrote:
| You hit the nail on the head. I don't have a good name for it,
| but this submission falls into one of HN's top ten tropes:
| Technology/startup blogger stumbles into mild internet fame for
| a single event/post, and then later feels the need to wax
| philosophical about it. That'd be fine, except none of them
| ever have anything original to say about it. Literally all of
| them boil down to "I didn't really enjoy getting my ten million
| likes, and social media is bad for me."
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